The ATACH Community of Practice resource repository aims to make resources which directly support delivery of the COP26 Health commitments easily accessible.
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WHO Technical Webinar Series on Climate Change and Health
27.02.2026These technical webinars include practical trainings, experience sharing, interactive activities and group discussions on key topics to support country action on climate change and health.
Accelerating towards net zero: A guide for the Australian health system
15.10.2025This guide includes research and case studies from over 50 organisations and 135 health practitioners and policymakers across Australia,
Sustainability Accelerator Tool (SAT)
15.10.2025This online tool and platform helps health care facilities assess sustainability maturity, prioritize actions, and track progress toward more efficient, low-carbon sustainable and climate‑resilient health care.
Anchored by health care: Strategies for health systems
15.10.2025This resource outlines strategies for health systems and facilities to act as anchor institutions that advance equitable community health and climate resilience. It presents engagement models, case studies, and best practices for transformative, community‑centered collaboration.
Health Care Without Harm training platform
15.10.2025This training platform offers free courses and online learning modules for health care professionals and leaders to build their capacities in emissions reductions, toxic material elimination and climate resilience strengthening. Course contents include expert insights and practical tools.
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals: a comprehensive environmental health agenda for hospitals and health systems around the world
15.10.2025This framework of ten sustainability goals guides hospitals and health systems in reducing environmental impacts, improving public health, and strengthening global health system resilience.
Sustainable system-wide commissioning: How a whole system approach leads to more sustainable healthcare
15.10.2025This guide outlines principles and tools to integrate sustainability considerations in decision-making on health care service design, procurement and delivery.
12 steps to green a kidney unit
15.10.2025This practical guide outlines key actions for kidney units to reduce emissions, improve resource efficiency, and strengthen resilience across clinical operations and patient care.
Climate change and health research: Current trends, gaps and perspectives for the future
15.10.2025This global review summarizes climate‑and‑health research trends, evidence gaps, and priority areas to guide policies, investments and action.
Policy brief | Charting a Course to Net Zero Emissions for the European Healthcare Sector
26.03.2025Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Europe developed this policy brief to offer actionable recommendations to national and sub-national health systems, ministries of health, and other governmental organisations derived from developing...
Aga Khan Health Services' Sustainability Guidelines for Staff
20.03.2025These Sustainability Guidelines are an open-access resource promoting staff-wide engagement in sustainable healthcare through practical strategies, awareness, and innovation, while emphasizing key co-benefits of sustainability in healthcare.
Safe, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities: an overview
29.11.2024This guidance summarizes key information and strategies for creating safe, climate-resilient, and environmentally sustainable health care facilities. It provides definitions, actionable guidance, and resources for implementation by health care managers, practitioners, and national authorities.
Green Surgery: Reducing the environmental impact of surgical care
26.11.2024This report provides actionable recommendations and case studies showing how to reduce the environmental impact of surgical care, while maintaining high-quality care and generating health system savings. It is also linked to an e-Learning module on Green Operating Theatres.
Plant-powered Planet: Building a Healthy and Sustainable Food System
26.11.2024This evidence-based policy report highlights the importance of food system transformation for health and sustainability. It outlines key policy interventions to address interlinked challenges of food insecurity, environmental degradation, and health.
Health systems decarbonization: Lessons learned in building capacities in the sector
22.10.2024This brief presents key lessons learnt from Health Care Without Harm’s experience in greenhouse gas (GHG) national baselining, action planning initiatives, and capacity-building strategies. These lessons learnt can help shape future approaches for countries working to measure and reduce health care-related emissions and enhance sustainability.
Transition to sustainable plastic packaging for consumer healthcare products
23.04.2024This Position Paper from the Global Self Care Federation (GSCF) outlines the consumer healthcare industry's perspective on policies needed to enhance sustainable packaging for non-prescription medicines and food supplements. It...
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Sectoral Guidance
23.04.2024This Sectoral Guidance document is designed as a simplified sectoral guidance to supplement general GHG protocol guidance. It aims to assist self-care suppliers in developing a GHG reduction strategy by providing non-technical...
Smart Hospital Initiative: Toolkit
20.02.2024This toolkit provides health system administrators and policymakers a practical guide to strengthening structural and operational aspects and providing green technologies, in order to improve hospitals' resilience and reduce their carbon footprint.
Carbon Emissions Learning Lab
04.01.2024The Carbon Emissions Learning Lab (CELL) is an on-line platform to train users on decision making to achieve net zero health systems. It is a learning tool for leaders in the healthcare sector who are navigating net zero health systems. CELL provides users with a realistic, low-risk simulation, powered by real-world data, to analyze the implementation of carbon-reduction initiatives in hospital systems. CELL empowers users to become climate leaders through informed, sustainability-oriented decision-making.
Target setting for low carbon sustainable health systems
03.12.2023This document contains key considerations and a practical checklist to assist health system administrators and policy makers in setting credible and ambitious decarbonization targets for the health sector.